RTL on visual editor

[ramiy]

check out the screenshot.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Confirmed. Looks better in 3.4: format-dropdown-wp34.png​.

I would expect the dropdowns in RTL to be right-aligned with the arrow though.

[ramiy]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Looks better in 3.4

Sergey, they both look bad from user experience perspective. The dropdown should be wider and higher.

[helen]

I think the only thing we can do for 3.5.1 is move the scrollbar back over and remove that lame -14px margin thing that I assume was a hack to make it look like it was aligned to the right side, which only worked with that dropdown with only default items: 23101.diff​

It'll align with the left side of the toolbar item, and the selection icon is on the left, but I don't know what we can do about that positioning - it's all set by TinyMCE and there are no RTL icons. Maybe can investigate further in 3.6, but for 3.5.1 I'm not sure we can/should do too much more.

ramiy - can you explain what you mean by the dropdown being higher? And also, in your screenshot, could you explain what the arrow on the left is for? Screenshots are helpful, but please try to be descriptive with words where you can.

[nacin]

If 23101.diff​ restores things to the 3.4 screenshot (attachment:format-dropdown-wp34.png​), I'm quite happy for this for 3.5.1.

[helen]

Right, yes, screenshots. It does, although it will be aligned to the left side of the box rather than seemingly-randomly 14 pixels over. We can restore that, but it's pretty meaningless. Image shows the default Format picker on the left, with added dropdowns and font size picker showing on the right.

We should probably figure out whether or not we can make TinyMCE behave better for RTL in 3.6. I have a suspicion it's not us.

[nacin]

In 23275:

Restore TinyMCE dropdowns to their 3.4 appearance in RTL. props helen. see #23101.

[nacin]

In 23276:

Restore TinyMCE dropdowns to their 3.4 appearance in RTL.

Merges [23275] to the 3.5 branch.
props helen.
fixes #23101.

[nacin]

Let's do a new ticket for improving the styles and working with TinyMCE upstream (as necessary). Considering this ticket fixed, as the regression is handled.